Archive for January, 2011

Smells Like Sunshine offers a little looky-loo into what she does for her day job. It involves, apparently, eating British foods, including a milk chocolate snack called “Digestives,” along with Shandy, a drink that mixes beer with lemonade.

The Edited Life wishes to remind you (and offers a primer on the best ways) to Back Up Your Data! Ed. Note: the emphasis was mine as this subject is a little personal for me right now… say, did any of you happen to find a backpack in a cab Friday night?

General Shout Out #2: Awkward Sex and the City has never failed to make me laugh… and when that can happen even well after 2am on hour 48 without sleep, it earns a shout out. Oh, and you might want to read about her Penis Envy.

Wild and Crazy Pearl shares the photographs of her very first birth story photo assignment. Incredible photos capture a wonderful scene. In her note to the new baby girl, she writes: It was tough for me to take photos during the last few minutes of your delivery and right after you arrived because I was crying behind my camera.

DC Reflections tells of the Renwick Gallery’s Japanese internment camp art show and the impact it had on him. He writes in part: A drawing on a piece of notebook-sized paper stopped me in my tracks: I saw a man falling to the ground with bullet wounds as he tried to reach through a barbed wire fence to rescue a stray dog. The man, I read in the accompanying text, was deaf. He did not hear the American military police office ordering him to put his arms back inside the fence.

Midnight Train to DC explains herself this way: A career-minded feminist with a good UK government job meets a handsome American man with a better US Government job. Produce: one ruby ring and a house on Capitol Hill.

Capitol Hill 20210has some good news following her mother’s stroke: her mother has started eating again and is working on talking. Now everyone, go call your Mom and talk to her now.

What do you do when there really does seem to be a security event going on?RudeCactus describes his reaction, with children in tow, to a non-event that seemed like something more near the Capitol Building.

Date the District offers some advice about online dating if you’re looking for a relationship rather than a hookup. My question is about the picture used with the post. Since when has Julian Assange been on OKCupid?

And here’s a sweet post by Stimeyland, shaking people down for money, but in the process showing exactly what the money will support. That’s a hockey team for kids with developmental disabilities, the Montgomery Cheetahs. The pictures accompanying the post were a delight too. If NPR wrote such sweet fundraising letters, I’d be giving to them all the time. So cough up the spare change in the couch.

Man, did our local boys do us proud in the Winter Classic! Your humble editor watched with pride on TV, but The OMB’s Lawnwas there. A hockey lover’s road trip, in words and pictures.

Vince Gray was inaugurated as DC’s sixth elected mayor this weekend. That Kellie Girl brings us pictures from the celebration and reminders of the challenges ahead.

Being one of those DC residents who came here from somewhere else, I kept my Saints loyalty instead of converting to the Redskins. But trust me, I understand the feelings of frustration and anger that come with a losing season. Marathon’s Mistress sums up the complex cocktail that was being a Redskins fan in 2010.

And once again, pretty pictures to sum up. Snow and champagne from The Art of Accessories. Happy 2011, y’all!